In the past couple of years, the public debate in Europe and in the United States has been
dominated by Edward Snowden's revelations regarding mass surveillance programs …

Mass surveillance in the European Union (EU) through the so-called Data Retention
Directive (2006/24/EC) has been subject to intense controversy in the Member States. This …

In this chapter, we focus on the role of supervisory authorities monitoring police and criminal
justice authorities. This issue raises delicate questions, as the EU legislator was called upon …

Until relatively recently, the foremost aim of the European Union (EU) was the establishment
of economic integration between the Member States. Consequently, the issue of a common …

Allegedly the Police and Criminal Justice Data Protection Directive (henceforth, the
“Directive”) is the little-known, much overlooked part of the EU data protection reform …

In many countries worldwide, everyone's communications metadata is pre-emptively
retained by telecoms and internet service providers for possible later use by the relevant …

The images of the 9/11 terrorist attacks put “security” back on the political agenda with both a
vengeance and a new accentuation. At the end of 2001 there was no doubt among the …

ABSTRACT SECILE is an EU-funded research project examining the legitimacy and
effectiveness of European Union counter-terrorism measures (CTMs). This report examines …

In Post-och Telestyrelsen and Watson, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)
clarified EU law on data retention. The Court established mandatory requirements for …

This thesis examines the added value of the fundamental right to data protection within the
EU legal order when law enforcement measures are at stake. It provides a comprehensive …